A post on Nagoya's (and apparently Central Japan's) largest building - the new Midland Square Tower. The poster mentions that it contains "Toyota sales staff" - hope he never needs a job at Toyota and they read this - it's Toyota's Honsha and the bigwigs may take offence! Oddly he doesn't mention it's a great place to spend some time - there are several WONDERFUL restaurants in the building (highly, highly recommend the Shanghai restaurant - yum!), as well as the lovely food court/food hall (include a "Chocolate Cellar" and the excellent Cinema multiplex downstairs. A great place to go - with it's own underground walk straight to the station too (something Lucent Tower, the other main Toyota building also has - my husband spends much time walking between the buildings for meetings and need never see the Sun!)
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Ack1 Actually he did mention the entertainment in passing - in the very first par - guess it wasn't effusive enough for me lol! It really is a favourite spot in Nagoya (when you have some cash admittedly!)
Hi DBR and Ack1
sorry my piece wasnt effusive enough.The summer heat and humidity tends to wilt my enthusiasm.In addition I made the school boy error of visiting Midland Square in the middle of Obon when the place was packed with families.
As for my comment about the sales staff I asked several Japanese friends concerning the Toyota employees and theres also a reference to sales staff in Avenues Winter 2006-07 page 7.I stand corrected
Finally thanks for the recommendation of the Shanghai restaurant .As I said the place was crowded so I didnt have time to sample the food court tho I did make a raid into Dean and Delucas ice cream cabinet
cheers
huey
Hi! My "not effusive enough for me" comment was just meant as a humorous reason why I didn't notice it since I couldn't edit my post - it was a mea culpa rather than a criticism! Apologies if it came across the wrong way. There certainly is a Lexus and a Toyota show room in there and you could buy a car but I'm pretty sure it's more filled with the behind the scenes business of running Toyota - again my humour has failed to translate in text - sigh... I really must stop trying (teehee.)
I jSoc'd it because I enjoyed it very much - it was great to see unseen views of one of the places which swallows my husband for the majority of our lives here (that's only semi-humour there)
Been reading your blog for a long time now - I'm sure I'll be jSocing some more!
Dani
I lived in Nagoya when they were building the JR Central Towers. It was an awesome site watching those towers grow. Then long after I had moved up to Gifu, I went down to Nagoya for a day and whamo! There was this big ole' Midland Square building standing shoulder to shoulder with the towers. It was like they built it overnight!
The buildings look amazing. I will have to go and see them someday.